Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wood-Breakers. The faint aura of unworldliness that clings to him, however, is mostly illusion; the Sikorsky imagination may soar, but he is a practical, enduring, even stubborn man. Though his colleagues call him "Uncle Igor" behind his back, nearly all United Aircraft officials call him Mr. Sikorsky to his face. His career has spanned virtually the entire history of flight...
Maybe the aura of loyalty and honor blinds the freshman to the supposedly barren nature of his life. At any rate, it is usually not until upperclass years that the Princeton first debates the merit of Charlie over Ascetic. When he does rebel, however, it seems to be with the energy of a closely-caged tiger. He wants his liquor, his car, and his Sex After Seven, and no assurances from the deans will convince him that abstinence is the best policy...
...wife of an Army officer, indignantly pointed out that the report was preposterous and that it actually referred to a U.S. Army maneuver in military government with townspeople cooperating in the exercise. She was hastily ruled out of order. (Fifty members had previously quit after objecting to "the aura of mystery.") Minute Women boasted they had planted observers in University of Houston classrooms to watch out for controversial material and teachers. "A new meaning," wrote Reporter O'Leary, "has been given to the word controversial ... It now often becomes a derogatory epithet, frequently synonymous with the word Communist...
...modern premedical student may get years and years of training, but does he get a well-rounded education? This week, in the first comprehensive report of premedical education in the U.S., three eminent deans-Aura E. Severinghaus, associate dean of Columbia University's faculty of medicine, William E. Cadbury Jr. of Haverford and Dean Emeritus Harry Carman of Columbia College-gave their answer: "No." As far as the liberal arts are concerned, says the report, the pre-med is shortchanged...
Even the works of the usually inimitable Updike have ceased to shine, and only glimmer fitfully through the morose aura which surrounds the magazine. This is probably the result of understandable fatigue, since this joker has been responsible for the bulk of the magazine's readable contents over a period of nearly two years...